Talk:List of maladaptive schemas

Maladaptive schemas vs. early maladaptive schemas

It has been suggested that the term early maladaptive schemas is preferable to maladaptive schemas, but the latter is the more inclusive term, and both are used by schema therapy researchers. Instead of using one term or the other in the lead sentence, I have included both terms. For examples of usage of the term maladaptive schemas (without early), search for "schema therapy" "maladaptive schemas" -"early maladaptive schemas" on Google Scholar and you will find hundreds of relevant references. The word "early" is potentially confusing as it may suggest that the schemas existed early in life but no longer do, or it may suggest that a person's schemas formed very early in childhood when the schemas could also have formed later in childhood or in adolescence. Biogeographist (talk) 13:01, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Critical information missing

Nowhere on the page is a maladaptive schema defined or even linked. The article/list makes the unrealistic assumption that the reader already knows this rather important detail. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 09:17, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

You're right; I added a definition. It is defined in Schema therapy, which is linked in the first paragraph, and the savvy reader could figure out that an article on schema therapy would be likely to define what a schema is, but for the less savvy reader (or just to save time clicking) the definition should be in this list. Biogeographist (talk) 13:15, 4 March 2020 (UTC)